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Playlist-style category page for poets, gathering 11 Book Bag videos into one searchable site section.
1:19:31
Children's author and poet Joseph Coelho drops into the Book Bag to discuss his latest prizewinning book, 'The Boy Lost in the Maze', a brilliant contemporary re-working of the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur.
1:07:04
Seize the day! Why Roman poet Horace still rocks A lover of wine (Nunc est bibendum), women and the peaceful life, Horace had to tread carefully around Augustus Caesar.
1:34:31
'Living in Venice made me a better person' Poet and art writer Rachel Spence joins me in the Book Bag to discuss her latest collection, 'Daughter of the Sun', which contains tender poems on her mother's terminal illness and a sequence redeeming the villainous Medea. We talk Ruskin, Greek tragegy, Renaissance art and yoga
13:46
Suzi bids farewell to the great Irish poet Michael Longley, and discusses his lengthy career. A link to the poetic past has been broken, but the work lives on.
1:13:15
Cartoonist Martin Rowson joins me in the Book Bag to celebrate publication of his Collected Journalism and also to chat about 'The *untsiad' his savage update of Alexander Pope's satirical epic The Dunciad. We get a bit sweary and talk about the grand old days in Soho.
1:16:31
Poet Tristan Fane Saunders drops into the Book Bag to talk about his virtuosic debut collection, 'Before We Go Any Further', his time as a jazz-punk singer, getting poetically lost in Crystal Palace Park and why we should all read Edna St Vincent Millay.
11:23
Suzi remembers her friend the poet and novelist Tobias Hill, who has died aged 53
1:15:29
Polari-prizewinning poet John McCullough drops into the Book Bag to explain why each of his four collections builds on the one before, how the poetry world has changed for the better, and why he'll never forget his old science teacher. Plus: some nifty writing tips!
1:17:09
Acclaimed poet Clare Pollard joins Suzi in the Book Bag to discuss her switch into fiction with her wickedly funny debut novel 'Delphi', her recent free-verse Ovid translations and her love of classical myths and legends. Author pic (copyright symbol) Lorenz Gullachsen
42:16
Suzi welcomes the poet Pele Cox to the Book Bag. Pele Cox was poet in residence at Tate Modern, the Royal Academy and the British School at Rome.
57:19
Today we welcome Blake Morrison to the Book Bag. Blake Morrison, poet, academic, critic and author of three acclaimed memoirs and four novels, discusses the book of sonnets he wrote for his deceased sister, his new musical collaboration, and what it was like to meet his idols Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin.
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